The race to produce rare earth materials
Rivalia prefers to work with existing waste products as opposed to coal that has not yet been burned. This approach is risky; extraction from...
Irene T. Cheng, SM ’78
“Thinking big, aiming high, and making a difference were rules of the road embedded during my time at MIT,” says Irene Cheng, SM ’78,...
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it prevents pregnancy. Participants were asked to...
Microsoft in 2024: The year custom silicon transforms Azure
The history of modern software development has been a dance between what hardware can give and what software demands. Over the decades, the steps...
Forget Growth. Optimize for Resilience
Fleming believed that growth has natural limits. Things grow to maturity—kids into adults, saplings into trees, startups into full-fledged companies—but growth beyond that point...
The Download: greener cement, and the biggest tech stories of 2023
+ The worst technology failures of 2023. The Titan submersible, lab-grown chicken, and GM’s wayward Cruise robotaxis all made our annual run-down of the...
How to use Rust with Python, and Python with Rust
Python and Rust occupy seemingly opposite ends of the language spectrum. Python, interpreted at runtime, offers developers a flexible and comfortable programming environment, but...
Women in the US Are Now Stockpiling Abortion Pills
When access to reproductive health care is threatened in the United States, a growing number of women stock up on abortion medications to keep...
The Download: solving the mystery of hunger, and the climate-tech boom
When you’re starving, hunger is like a demon. It awakens the most ancient and primitive parts of the brain, then commandeers other neural machinery...
How to unlock C-suite support for application modernization initiatives
Business leaders and IT departments can hold very different views on the priority and outcomes of application modernization, and these opposing views often hinder...
